Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Wednesday’s Devotion: Trash to Treasure


2 Corinthians 5:17  Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!

Lara Spencer on GMA loves to take flea market finds and rework them into something beautiful.  I think that’s a great idea.  We are too quick to cast things off that still could have a useful life for someone.  Last week I rescued two nice crates from someone’s trash pile.  We needed more storage for past newsletters and bulletins in the office and these will fit nicely in our cabinets. We throw people away, too. Not literally, but we write them off because of some failure, because of our failure to see the good that might still lie within them.  We all fail at times, there are just different degrees of failure.  The good news is that Christ is greater than all our failures and that through Christ we can become renewed and even better than before.  Christ is also in the trash to treasures business for which I am very thankful.

Thank you Jesus, for giving us the opportunity to become new people.  We don’t always live up to our own expectations, much less the expectations of others. Yet we know that your love and care for us is unfailing.  We praise your name, and put our trust in you. Amen.

Blessings,
Paige

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